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This book opens with an attempt to give clarity, substance and precision to the definition of utopia by isolating its characteristics in contrast with those of other forms of ideal society. The value of these distinctions is shown in a detailed re-examination of the sixteenth-century European writers who developed the re-emergent form of utopia.Davis, J. C. is the author of 'Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700', published 1981 under ISBN 9780521233965 and ISBN 0521233968.
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